Notorious San Antonio killers

Compiled by Merrisa Brown, mySA.com

San Antonio is one of the oldest cities in Texas, so it should come to no surprise that S.A. also has a dark history of heinous crimes. Here are 17 killers whose crimes against children, city leaders and others won't soon fade from the Alamo City's memory. Source: San Antonio Express-News archives; Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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Tommy Lynn SellsSells, a serial killer linked to the deaths of more than a dozen people, plead guilty strangling Mary Beatrice Perez, a 9-year-old girl he kidnapped from a Fiesta Event in 1999. Sells was put to death in April 2014 for the stabbing death of 13-year-old Del Rio girl killed in December 1999.

Tommy Lynn SellsSells, a serial killer linked to the deaths of more than a dozen people, plead guilty strangling Mary Beatrice Perez, a 9-year-old girl he kidnapped from a Fiesta Event in 1999. Sells was put to death in April 2014 for the stabbing death of 13-year-old Del Rio girl killed in December 1999.